Comment Re:My brain/eyes are incompatible with 3D TV/movie (Score 5, Funny) 419
Oh, you have a girlfriend. Are you going to get married?
Do you love her?
Comment Re:Logic (Score 2, Informative) 241
I doubleunwant toread letterspeak.
Comment Re:Conventional images (Score 1) 91
OSHI---
Comment Re:Here we go... (Score 1) 258
whoosh...
Comment Vim-LaTeX (Score 1) 823
With Vim's editing capability, the shortcuts defined in VIM-LaTeX let me take notes as fast as my professor types them.
Comment Re:A toothpick and an android head... (Score 1) 266
It was an iron filing, you insensitive clod.
Comment I heart nanobees. (Score 1) 98
Enough said.
Comment GAO? (Score 1) 275
It's standard practice to at least mention what an acronym stands for before using it, especially when it's not well known. The GAO is the Government Accountability Office, which is apparently designed to provide some oversight to what Congress does.
Comment Re:Greater benefic (Score 2, Insightful) 222
Are you feeling jovial?
Comment Re:nothing special... (Score 3, Informative) 347
The chance of emission at higher energies decreases exponentially. You're getting far, far, far more exposure to ionizing radiation from the naturally radioactive potassium in others' bodies than by their black-body emission.
Comment Re:Sometimes /. is so fatalistic (Score 3, Funny) 414
Of course, a solid steel parachute! Why didn't we think of this before!
Signed,
Ares Engineers
California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections 411
The EFF has restated many of their original privacy objections about California's latest revision to the Pay-As-You-Drive auto insurance proposal. Admitting that the amended bill is an improvement, privacy advocates are still uneasy about the surveillance implications of this program. "The proposal centers on a simple idea: infrequent drivers are less of an insurance risk. By pricing policies according to the mileage driven, insurance companies can offer discounts to lower-risk infrequent drivers, and put an appropriate cost penalty on heavy drivers. The state estimates that 30% adoption of PAYD insurance nationwide would reduce miles driven by at least 10% among subscribers, and save 55 million tons of CO2 over the next ten years. The benefits of such a system could be quite dramatic, as California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is sure to emphasize. Such insurance plans first became available in 2004, and are now available as a limited option in 30 US states from insurance companies like Progressive and Liberty Mutual."
Comment Re:Money well spent (Score 1) 101
The problem with any real-world project is that you can't tell a priori what the "vital" part is and what isn't. If that were the case, we as humans wouldn't waste time on trial and error, and it would instead be trial and success.
Comment Re:Bureaucracy cannot fix monopoly (Score 2, Insightful) 803
Erm, since when can one be a citizen of the EU?
Comment Money well spent (Score 4, Insightful) 101
We pissed away $3 billion dollars and 13 years of time, when we could have waited a few more years and got it done in a week, and much, much cheaper. What a waste of time and money that was....
I know I'm being trolled, but you're an idiot. It's pretty obvious that the ability to sequence the genome in a week could only result from techniques developed and information gathered in the original Human Genome project.
